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Diffusion transformers (DiT) have become the de facto choice for generating high-quality images and videos, largely due to their scalability, which enables the construction of larger models for enhanced performance. However, the increased…

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Recently, diffusion models (DMs) have made significant strides in high-quality image generation. However, the multi-step denoising process often results in considerable computational overhead, impeding deployment on resource-constrained…

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Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in high-quality image and video generation but incur substantial compute cost at inference. A common observation is that DiT latent noise vectors change slowly across…

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Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a widely adopted technique in diffusion and flow-based generative models, enabling high-quality conditional generation. A key theoretical challenge is characterizing the distribution induced by CFG,…

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Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG), which combines the conditional and unconditional score functions with two coefficients summing to one, serves as a practical technique for diffusion model sampling. Theoretically, however, denoising with CFG…

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Classifier-free guidance (CFG) has become an essential component of modern conditional diffusion models. Although highly effective in practice, the underlying mechanisms by which CFG enhances quality, detail, and prompt alignment are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Seyedmorteza Sadat , Tobias Vontobel , Farnood Salehi , Romann M. Weber

Diffusion models achieve remarkable generation quality but suffer from computational intensive sampling due to suboptimal step discretization. While existing works focus on optimizing denoising directions, we address the principled design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jianning Pei , Han Hu , Shuyang Gu

Diffusion transformers have gained significant attention in recent years for their ability to generate high-quality images and videos, yet still suffer from a huge computational cost due to their iterative denoising process. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Zhixin Zheng , Xinyu Wang , Chang Zou , Shaobo Wang , Linfeng Zhang

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection remains a fundamental challenge for deep neural networks, particularly due to overconfident predictions on unseen OOD samples during testing. We reveal a key insight: OOD samples predicted as the same…

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The class-conditional image generation based on diffusion models is renowned for generating high-quality and diverse images. However, most prior efforts focus on generating images for general categories, e.g., 1000 classes in ImageNet-1k. A…

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Classifier-free guidance is a key component for enhancing the performance of conditional generative models across diverse tasks. While it has previously demonstrated remarkable improvements for the sample quality, it has only been…

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Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generative tasks but suffer from high computational costs due to their iterative sampling process and quadratic attention costs. Existing training-free acceleration strategies that reduce…

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The primary axes of interest in image-generating diffusion models are image quality, the amount of variation in the results, and how well the results align with a given condition, e.g., a class label or a text prompt. The popular…

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Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is the workhorse for steering large diffusion models toward text-conditioned targets, yet its native application to rectified flow (RF) based models provokes severe off-manifold drift, yielding visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Shreshth Saini , Shashank Gupta , Alan C. Bovik

Image tokenization plays a central role in modern generative modeling by mapping visual inputs into compact representations that serve as an intermediate signal between pixels and generative models. Diffusion-based decoders have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Chuhan Wang , Hao Chen

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have become the dominant methods in image and video generation yet still suffer substantial computational costs. As an effective approach for DiT acceleration, feature caching methods are designed to cache the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Chang Zou , Evelyn Zhang , Runlin Guo , Haohang Xu , Conghui He , Xuming Hu , Linfeng Zhang

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in various generative tasks with the predictive prowess of denoising model. Currently, diffusion models employ a uniform denoising model across all timesteps. However, the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Wenhao Li , Xiu Su , Yu Han , Shan You , Tao Huang , Chang Xu

Diffusion Models (DMs) have achieved state-of-the-art generative performance across multiple modalities, yet their sampling process remains prohibitively slow due to the need for hundreds of function evaluations. Recent progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Tong Zhao , Mingkun Lei , Liangyu Yuan , Yanming Yang , Chenxi Song , Yang Wang , Beier Zhu , Chi Zhang

Diffusion models have emerged as state-of-the-art in image generation, but their practical deployment is hindered by the significant computational cost of their iterative denoising process. While existing caching techniques can accelerate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Mingyu Sung , Il-Min Kim , Sangseok Yun , Jae-Mo Kang

Diffusion models achieve remarkable generative quality, but computational overhead scales with step count, model depth, and sequence length. Feature caching is effective since adjacent timesteps yield highly similar features. However, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tingyan Wen , Haoyu Li , Yihuang Chen , Xing Zhou , Lifei Zhu , Xueqian Wang